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The thing is, isn't geolocalisation useful at all? I mean, this function has some interest so why remove it? Why remove features for the sake of not agreeing with them? Isn't removing feature what people do complain about when it comes to GNOME? Troll spotted if you ask me. Of course it should have been made optional since it first spawned, but the fact it is now optional is good news, it proves they are doing it right.

But I think AnonymousCoward is right in some respect: if it's traditionnal UNIX-like desktop you're looking for, XFCE does it much better than GNOME now, and I think that if it is still not as polished as GNOME 2.x was back in the days, it is much, much less bloated - the very reason why, at the time, I switched to openbox + tint2 + pcmanfm. I switched back to GNOME with 3.2 because it answered the bloat issue quite well... not to everyone's approval, as you know.

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Any app that wanted geolocation data would just get your IP and look it up from there...

Why using the IP when there could be a GPS in the computer? And in my country location reported by IP can often differ by tens of kilometers.. Personally I'm at 70km of the reported location and I have a friend who is 400km far xD

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Yes, too bad XFCE depends on GTK+ which is controlled by the GNOME team. I'm waiting for Wayland+Hawaii...

Gtk+ is still pretty decent, I would however prefer if some other entity controlled it other than GNOME. In my opinion the theming change from version 2 to 3 was a disaster, even today I have problems with theming now and then. The least they could have done was emulating or adding compatibility for the version 2 theming until they are able to completely drop version 2, which wont be happening anytime soon.

Also, they advertise Gtk+ as cross-platform which is not completely true. Ever tried setting up a build environment for Gtk+ on windows? I tried, it is a mess. I don't know if windows support has been improved since then, as it was quite a while ago. Windows was a second class citizen for Gtk+ the last time I tried it.

While I like Qt, it also has its fair share of flaws. In my opinion, the largest flaw is that it is not written in C. Why, you ask? it's simple, because the majority of free and open source projects are written in C and they will not introduce any C++ into their project just for the GUI. Also, the Qt specific preprocessor (or whatever it's called?)... do they really need that?

If Qt would have been written in C, the moment it went GPL a lot more free and open source projects would have added a Qt gui next to their Gtk+ gui.

You can easily create C++ bindings for a C project, but it is more complicated the other way around...